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2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market — what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relatively newly launched journals?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.

  • By Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel
  • Jul 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research

Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Categorizing Mental Health Research

Hélène Draux presents the first of a two-part effort to chart the topography of mental health scholarship. Here, established methods, including pre-existing classifications are employed.

  • By Hélène Draux
  • Feb 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI

A data scientist reviews ScopusAI (beta) and shares her analysis of its limitations, reliability, and potential.

  • By Teresa Kubacka
  • Feb 21, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post – A Bibliometric Analysis of The Scholarly Kitchen

Librarian Cem Özel takes a look at the citation record for The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By Cem Özel
  • Jun 7, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers

For smaller and independent publishers, the Transformative Journal route to Plan S compliance seems like a viable option. At least until you see the reporting requirements.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 22, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

XKCD on the Types of Scientific Papers — What Would You Add to this List?

Randall Munroe gives us the real scoop on what scientific papers are saying. Your suggestions welcome as well.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 30, 2021
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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